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SethPOV
September 14 2008
Dear, Seth Clearwater
Everything is great, everything is grand….. I can’t seem to find something else to rhyme with so I’m just going to leave that here. Time sure does move fast, don't it. So before a new school year starts it's time to reflect on my life so far. In the two years from that wired Volturi standoff life has changed so much for everyone. In exchange for Sam’s help, by extension the pack, the Cullens sadly had to leave Forks, while all but three.
Okay so Bella and Edward don’t live in Forks per say, as they are in Alaska doing college. So I guess Bella actually applied for college in Alaska and she got in. Sure she could have done college whenever, but Edward convinced her to go through it for the first time while she still felt eighteen and fresh. Still they come to visit ever so often. Of course, Alaska is no place to raise a hybrid child which brings us to the case of Nessie.
She was growing too quickly, heck by now she was two years old with the mind and body of a fourteen year old tween, and both Bells and Edward thought moving would be too much change for her to handle all at once for and so Charlie happily agreed to be the best grandpa ever to exist and took Nessie happly in. Thankfully Nessie's smell won’t trigger any more wolf genes.
Back at the Rez things have been kind of tense. Once we came home from Alaska last christmas the whole pack was in for a surprise. Emily was pregnant with the first pack baby. Sam was ecstatic to say the least as was the pack. Man, seeing Sam cry tears of happiness brought tears to my eyes as well and it must have kicked something in Jacob too. After the announcement Jake was oddly quiet for a week and then he was gone for the rest of the summer. Most of the pack thought he was still trying to recover from Bella but I dunno it just didn’t feel right. So when little Levi Ulay was born as summer ended, color us surprised when Jacob came back looking a lot bigger than normal by the end of the party. Jake went straight to Sam and asked to meet in the forest. Before I knew it, the next patrol Jake was beta, as an alpha in training and Sam was allowed to raise his family as Jakes wolf teacher on the side.
Thing is Jake is not the person he once was. He was happily imprinted on Nessie for the whole Volturi thing, then something about their bond snapped while he was gone alphing up. Nor the pack or the concile knew how or why his imprint broke but if feeling of true happiness for a short time only to have it taken away broke his heart, the fact that at Nessie never even noticed he was gone for a long time smashed it. Ever since then Jacob sadly has become the textbook definition of a high school bum. Unless it was a weekly pack meeting at his house or a bonfire I rarely see Jake anymore. From what I heard around town Jake he basically moved out of his room and lives in his tiny garage offering his room to Paul so he can stay close to Rachel and rarely speaks to his family. Billy, Rachel, and even Paul try to get through to him, but he always runs out before they can say a word. Embry and Quil are the only people he let’s visit say not to worry as all he does is stay in their fixing who knows what but I dunno I swear I can smell the scent of alcohol and salty tears wafting out sometimes. Leah and I even had our hand in the cheer Jacob up but he ended up accidentally punching my face out of anger….Needless to say Leah didn’t take it well.
Within the Clearwater household things have been fine. Mom found love again in Charlie and the two have been dating since last year. I love my mom and to see her happily in love with one of dad’s best friends was odd at first but Charlie was a good man so I won’t mind if I become Seth Cleawater Swan anytime soon (but I don’t know if I should call him dad when that time comes.) Leah on the other hand…. I’m not really sure how she feels about Charlie now that I think of it. Anytime he’s over, which is a lot, Leah either finds a way out of the house and if she can’t find a reason to leave then she gives nothing more then the bare nicety and says nothing else to him. I want to believe she’s happy about it but I’m not really sure.
As for me…. how could life get any better. I’m about to start my junior year of high school and with no vampire activity wolf life is simple and clean. Due to Charlie constant visits Nessie would come with him, or me coming to Forks to see her, and I have to say it. We are the best best friends in the whole world! We just clicked together like magnets with an extra strong pull with each other. I think it has something to do with us being the youngest in our respective groups with HER being the youngest in her coven and me just being a nice guy. (I sometimes forget Bradly and Colin are pack too hehe- keeping that thought to myself). Anyways, Nessie and I are like two peas in a pod, where it came to a point where mom offered to send me to Forks High this year and will-
“Gross!! We're going to be related some day Sethy you can’t write love letters to me.” Nessie’s sweet voice mocked me as she wrapped her arms around me stealing my wolfy warmths for herself.
“Please. Only a woman can satisfy this wolf-“ I turned to meet her golden eyes with a wink and a smirk “-your only what? Four months old?”
“I’m two danm it!” Nessie whined as she lightly slapped my chest as she pushed herself away from me face in a cute little pout. “Besides Grandpa would arrest you after Dad kills you!”
“Don’t. I. Know. It.” I emprized each world as I stood up from my desk... when I realized something. Charlie left about an hour ago and Nessie eyes signed that she went hunting earlier. “What time is it?”
Nessie pout turned into a nasty smirk. “School starts in thirty minutes. It’s quite the drive and mom's truck is slow.”
I took a fast glance at my clock and sure enough it was 8:30… Shit. I wanted to yell at the young hybrid but damn it she is precious even when she’s being an ass.
“Wait in the car, I’ll be done in a minute!” I ordered with a slight laugh.
“Oookayy! Just don’t bother with the deodorant. No amount of chemicals can fix that wet dog smell.” She mocked, leaving with a hearty giggle trailing behind her.
“Thanks Nessie!” I yelled back with sarcasm dripping in my voice. It’s a good thing that Bella is not here. She would kill me for using that nickname but if I had to say Renesmee all day I would be dead by lack of air.
I quickly combined my hair with one hand and brushed my sharp wolf teeth with the other while frantically sniffing around for a simi clean shirt. Spitting out my minty spit into the sink and throwing on a wrinkled brown t-shirt that hung loosely over my body. It had a cute little wolf silhouette howling on the bottom left (could you tell it was a gift from Nessie?) and a lightly stained pair of blue ripped jeans. I quickly stuff my things into my bag and when I’m uncomfortable in my shoes I notice I have yet to finish my letter…. I have a couple of minutes.
I took Mom’s offer and here I am in Forks starting my jr year andNessie starving her freahMen year. Any way that it for now. Gonenbey!!
Suncerely,
Me
Stuffing myself letters with the rest of them on my desk, dashed down stairs, grabbing Bella’s keys off the hook, hastily put on a light red and black flannel jacket to blend in, and jumped into the rusty truck. Nessie looked unimpressed with me. I was pleased with myself.
“ 5 mintues to spare!”
“Grool. Now go! I don’t want to be late for my first day of high school.”
“Geez calm down. This is your first ‘first’ day of high school.” I growled under my breath as I jabed the key into the car and with a few mumbles and grumbles of its own, soon roared to life. Me and Nessie both shared a cocky grin with each other.
“You ready?” I asked playfull confidence oozing off me.
“You bet!” Nessie answered with her smirk changing to a childish smile. With nothing more than a fist bump we were off.
First impressions are key and I have to say that in the few minutes I’ve been in Forks high school I like it a lot more than La Push single school for everything. It just smiled better as even without a wolf nose the fresher smell of evergreens and rain was more calming than the heavy sea salt and wet wood back at La Push.
To avoid any questions on how the Cullens had a new family member in such short notice and why Nessie was the only Cullen in Forks, she was dubbed Renesmee Clearwater and told everyone she was my step sister (as being a Swan would also call for suspicions) which wouldn't be completely wrong if Mom remarried.
“Your real name’s Seteth! I thought my name was long!”
“Hay! Give that back!” I snearled, quickly snatching my time table from the nosey two year old. “You're the one to talk. Re-ne-sm-ee.” Making sure to stretch out her name to emphasize my point.
“Alright you got me.” Nessie admitted with a shrug as she looked over her freshmen time table.
“K i’m gonna explore a bit before class starts. See you laater!” Before I could say a word the little hybrid wandered off into the halls. I watched as she skipped with her long brown hair bouncing up and down, with her white long sleeved dress covering all of her body from the wondering eyes of her fellow classmates. She’s only two, waaaaay too long to be dating.
Instead of leaning against my locker (which is right outside the lunch room. SCORE!) I was just going to go to my first class… english…... yaaaay. For the first time in sense I phased I felt a cold chill run down my back. I could read and that’s about it anything about complex and compound sentences, author’s purpose, tone,theme, and all that shit goes over my head the moment it comes out my teachers mouth. It’s not that I don’t try, I just can’t get it. Having it in the morning just made it a lot harder to keep up with my sterdy C-. (My mind is just not awake yet.)
NO! Seth you're in a new school with the chance to have a normalish life. So I decided to walk through the light green hallways with a smile on my face. Sure I was dead meet in the morning but look at every other class I can handle. Math is not that hard, history and science are just a memory game, and as a magically jacked werewolf P.E is a breeze.
On the subject of that I noticed some ‘hungry’ looking girls and jealous looking guys glaring at me. I could help but let out a prideful smirk escape me. I will admit that it is a bit embarrassing to smile the ummm ‘want’ from some of the girls around me. I mean I get it ,as not to toot my own horn but I am quite the looker hehe. My flannel clung tightly to my arms showing off the muscle. I decided to keep my hair the same length as it was just easier to keep it short, and something about having sharp wolf teeth just seemed attractive so I kept mine in loganted.
I was brought out of my musing when a lightweight bumped into me that was soon followed by a “Oof sorry.” I look up to see a pair of light blue eyes. I have bumped someone..great first impressions.
“Oh no I wasn't looking where I was going. Hehe-” I sheepishly rub the back of my neck as I watched some girl fix herself by straightening out her clothes, which consisted of a far too large plaid brown and red jacket blanket over a simple black dress that covered her flat chest (Not that I care about that type of thing!). I could help but let out a little offended growl when she mumbled “clearly” in a sarcastic tone. I said I’m sorry.
“Yaaaa. I’m Seth.” I quickly spat out to clear away any awakeness as I extended my hand to the short black hair girl.
“Dianna.” She took my hand with a smile and gave it a firm shack. As we were shocked I noticed she smelt a little different from other humans. It was not sickly sweet like a vampire, nor was it wet dog, nor was it slightly sweet like Nessie. Dianna just smelled...different.
“Well sorry again for not looking where I was going. I’ll guess I see you around.”
He scoffed as he threw her bag over her shoulder “Maybe.” Was all she said before she bit her lip and walked away.
Last class of the day and I was hyped up to all hell! Gym! There’s nothing better than to work off the stress of past classes with a good gym class!
Color me unsurprised to find the mass majority of students in the gym already found their clicks, I guess some things are true for every high school. We all wore the same boring gym shirt with me opting for basic black sweatpants and a light jacket to help blend in.
To avoid the gazes of some of the girls checking me I joined one guy in the corner to start my warm up stretches. He seemed to be sleeping as his head rested against the mirror as he cradled his body into his jacket and I could be a jerk to wake him up but who I’m I to do that? A few minutes passed as the room was filled with loud ideal chat that started to hurt my highly sensitive ears and before long the instructor walked in and called for everyone's attention and to get into a line for roll call. Looking over to my sleeping friend I thought I wouldn't be that guy and leave him there. So I gave him a little shake up call and pushed lightly on his shoulder.
“Come on now bud, we don’t want to be in the back now do we?” I joked singing songingly as I extended my hand to help up the waking classmate.
“Yaaaaa. Being out of sight would be the worst thing ever.” Even as he yawned I can tell the pure amount of sarcasm in his voice. I let out a soft chuckle as he opened his eyes to look at me.
Making my whole world stop.
I could feel everything in my life start to slip away. Mom, Nessie, the pack, just seemed less important than him. My heart was pounding so hard out of my chest that I think my head forgot to tell my lungs to breathe. Gravity was no longer pulling me down; it was pulling me to this one person. There was no doubt about it.
I had imprinted.
“Bloody ell.” My imprints said snapping me out of my dazy. When I looked back to his golden hazed eyes I noticed he held an angry scowl on his face. My heart slightly broke at the sight of it.
“He-hey. Let me-“
“Sod off for a bit o’right!” He whispered as he slapped my hand out of his way and stood up on his own. Without spearing me a passing glance. I had to hold down a whimper as I got in line with the others just as the teacher started to take roll.
As names entered one ear and left the other all I cared about at this point was finding a way to look at my soulmate. Then it hit me. His eyes were golden like Nessie. I could feel my breath hitch in my throat as it hit me. I imprinted on a vampire. A new vampire at that oh no! What if he goes to La Push and then the pack gets to him! What about his coven? Does he have a coven? Do I even know his name?!
“Barry…..” The teacher stuttered out trying to say this one student's name.
“Amaterasu.” My head shot up the moment the dull, sleepy voice of my imprint passed my ears and my wolf was rolling around happily inside me as I tried to sneak a look at my imprint but some girl was in the way! Barry Amaterasu . What a strange name, but a cool one. From the looks of it he was a cool guy too.
All the while the gym teacher went over rules and what we’ll be doing for the year and before I knew it we were all up and playing basketball. It was one class versus another so that didn’t help me play as good as I could do was focus in on the vampire tryi. I stole as many looks at him as I could without raising suspensions of the other students. So to help calm my wolf I took to taking in deep breaths to try and get his scent. Doing so didn’t let me play well as I could recall some head on collisions with the basketball… and sometimes the floor. Finally the teacher dismissed everyone to get changed and no more then a second later did every student flock out the gym doors. I was smart enough to wait for the mob to settle but I mostly stayed behind to look for my imprint but to my dismay only his honey sweet scent lingered.
I had a very intense staring contest with the back of my gym locker just deep in thought about the last hour as I was half way done changing my clothes when it hit me. I’m not just imprinted to a vampire. I imprinted on a boy! Barry, from the short time I’ve seen him, was good looking but up till now…. I swear I was straight! I mean sure I’ve seen some pretty handsome boys but I only said that joke. Ya sure sometimes I felt a tad bit uncomfortable anytime I was around any of the pack that forgot pants, but it’s nothing I haven't seen before. Then again I don’t remember any pacific girls that I had a crush, but neither was there ever a boy that I ever thought to have a crush on.
Even if I was gay before and didn’t now it, how could I tell the pack…. hell how can I even set foot in the rez ever again!? La Push isn’t exactly the most inclusive place in Washington and while I won’t get pelted with stones I would get some dirty looks. As for the pack I don’t really know. I feel like most of the pack would be fine with it, but Jack and Leah I don’t really know how they would react.
Then there's me… would I give into my imprint? After all I just met the guy, and Barry being a vampire might cause some complications within the pack. While the rest are on okay terms with vampires, Jacob hates them even more than ever after his imprint on Nessie broke. As for me… could I go through with the imprint. I was still young so I don’t really know if I was ready for that type of commitment. If I was, would I be open about it or would I want to stay in the closet? Great Spirits what is your plan with me?
“Seth right?”
I was brought out of my musing as a low gravelly voice with a heavy British accent passed by my ears. Once again a sweet honey scent wafted into my nose and right besides me was my imprint. He was even more breathtaking than when I first laid eyes on him. His skin was paller than mine but still had a visible tan that made him shine beautifully under the dull fluorescent light. All of his blond hair shorted up in short spikes all around but in the back a bun of hair stood up proudly.
He wore a black denim jacket over a black t-shirt with paint like red splotches doting random areas of the short, at least I hope it’s paint. Compared with his black ripped jeans he just looked breathtaking.
I was once again brought out of my gawking when he let out a cough to catch my attention. I had to look up to meet him as he had a good foot on me and I was a stunning 6 foot 5!
“Barry.” He said nonchalantly as he extended his hand.
“Seth.” I eagerly took it and the moment we touched it was like fireworks were set off in my head. Everything I could steal from the minds of the other imprinted wolves were starting to make sense. Feelings of overwhelming love, the need to be close to him, the want to feel him, everything just made sense to me now. Thing is…. Barry was warm. It could be just my heat pooling into him but I swear Barry felt warm not cold like a normal vampire would, but before I could think about it any longer he pulled away.
“After all these blasted years… I would be subjected to an imprint by wee pup like yourself.“ I watched with wide eyes as he paused as he teeth big into his lip as his eyebrows crushed together as if they would make the gears in his head spin faster.
“I’ll figure something out, but don’t go biting your arm off in early devotion.” A wave of relief washed over me. I thought that he would have rejected me and…. gods I don’t want to think about that possibility. I’ll admit though his words and accent are a little hard to warp my head around, but his last names sounds anything but an english name.
“That’s... that’s fine! Ya I can give you all the time you need!” I could feel a nervous sweat run down my back as my heart picked up speed as I tried to hold back a wolf-like whimper from escaping my throat. Wolf me did not like the thought of his new imprint being away from him.
“Well seeing how I’m a vampire and you're a werewolf….” Barry reached into his satchel bag and in a few seconds that I did not spend entranced by his arm movement, he pulled out a nice piece of paper.
“This letter needs to get to your alpha ASAP. As I’m guessing this land is pack territory and I doubt you alpha is horses for courses on us vampirs.” Whatever horses for courses means, Barry said that with a smirk and a wink.
I eagerly took that letter from his hand and looked it over. It was neatly folded over whatever was inside and sealed in a classy red wax stamp with some kind of asian symbol on the wax. Either way it held his honey smell on it.
“I...I can’t. My alpha really, REALLY hates vampires! I doubt if I gave him this he would look at it.”
“No surprise there. Do you guys have a patrol system or something along those lines?”
I nodded my head eagerly, nodded my head up and down, it made Barry smirk widen as he wisped quite ‘perfect’ under his breath.
“I can work with that. Try to get on the midnight shift and howl at some place were I can meet ya pack.”
“Ya I can do that!” I said with a smile as I looked into his eyes.
“Thanks.” Barry said with a smirk that showed his teeth which I swore sprinkled when the light touched it.
“Ohh and keep the letter. I know how…. excited you pups can get with new imprints and ol that .” He said before turning to leave the locker room.
I waited for the sound of the heavy gym slamming shut and let out a happy sigh of relief. I couldn't help but let a wide smile as I proceeded in the last few minutes. God. Everything I heard about imprinting was ture. I felt a whole lot lonelier now that Barry was gone. Taking in whatever was left of his scent in the air to comfort my wolf I fixed myself up and headed out to find my other significant vampire in my life, well my wolf wanted to catch up and find Barry.
So much for a semi-normal life now I guess.